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September 15, 2024 at 10:07AM
Month: September 2024
Young Germans rebel…
In response to draconian COVID lockdowns, censorship, media bias, economic collapse and infrastructure decay, Germany’s youth swings to the right.
Germany’s political establishment will soon pay dearly for its errors, arrogance and insolence.
A profound and accelerating mood swing is underway across Germany, and nothing is stopping it. And the more the establishment tries to denounce it, the more the elites get rebuffed.
Germans, once seemed to be caught up in a dreamland and unwilling to wake up from it” appear to have finally awakened to the fact that the country is in deep DEEP trouble.
Quiet but powerful rebellion
Especially Germany’s youth have woken up and have undergone a truly profound change of mind. The days of Fridays for Future, led by Greta Thunberg, have disappeared faster than a snowball on a hot summer day. Indeed, the youth have kept their “we’ll be watching you” promise, and, ironically, hate what they are seeing.
Now they are leading a quiet but powerful rebellion.
COVID lies
It started in 2020. Recall how just a few years ago, Germany’s young population was all caught up with Fridays For Future hype and climate hysteria. Suddenly, it got interrupted by the COVID pandemic. The youth, like everyone else, got and locked down and were forced to abide by ridiculous rules and experimental medial treatment. No age group suffered more than young people under 20. Today these young people have since realized that the media and political establishment lied to them.
War lies and energy woes
Then the next fundamental lie got revealed: The warm and fuzzy Greens and Socialists weren’t pacifists at all but rather reckless warmongers who cheered on the war in Ukraine.
Next, a major natural gas pipeline was sabotaged by their own governments. This in turn led to skyrocketing energy prices and inflation. Suddenly the youth dreams of s future of prosperity went up in smoke. Next, the German Greens began to call for imposing harsh green policies on everyone, threatening to make life even more unbearable for the poor.
Censorship
To make things worse, during COVID and the Ukraine war, the youth became aware of just how “democratic” the west really was. Dissidents were silenced as censorship spread across major social media platforms. In Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, people expressing different views found themselves slandered and criminalized. Dissident leaders were even arrested and locked up. Thousands of social media accounts were suspended.
In July, 2024, we saw Germany’s “far right” Compact magazine get raided by German special forces and shut down by the overzealous socialist Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser.
Last month, instant messaging service Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested by French authorities. His crime: providing free speech. The youth now realize how “free speech” in the west is a joke.
Open borders and immigrant violence
Last month’s killing of three people (and many more injured) by a Syrian refugee at a festival highlighted a long streak of growing violence by migrants. The public reacted by loudly calling Europe’s border policies into question. Despite a string of lofty promises, politicians have taken no real action to stem the flood of migrants from the Middle East and Africa.
Crime and violence have made many parts of Germany unsafe, and it’s dawning on the youth that their country is potentially going to hell in a basket. On September 1st, voters in the states of Saxony and Thuringia turned out in large numbers, and handed the right wing AfD party huge results.
Once voting Green, the youth under 18 have swung in masses to the right. Last August in Thuringia, 9000 youths under age 18 were asked in a survey who they would vote for. The winner by a huge margin was the right wing AfD party, pulling in 37.4% of the vote – more than double compared to 16.5% it got in 2019. The Greens, on the other hand, lost a whopping 83% of their supporters, see here.
German bridge is falling down
Popularity for the German Greens and Socialists is in collapse, and so is Germany’s infrastructure.
Last week, part of a major bridge in the Saxony city of Dresden mysteriously collapsed. The incident highlights Germany’s neglect of its own infrastructure while it funnels tens of billions of euros into dubious green projects at home and abroad. The collapse of the Dresden bridge is an accurate metaphor for Germany.
“Part of the AfD’s success can be attributed to its economic policy,” reports Unherd here. “It calls for an end to government subsidies that distort the market, an end to the country’s expensive green energy transition and, crucially, a reversal of the current deindustrialisation. If such moderate economic policy is abandoned by the centrists in power, then voters will look elsewhere.”
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September 15, 2024 at 09:48AM
“Extraordinary, if not unprecedented”. It’s only mid-September after a summer alleged by the BBC (and others) to be the ‘world’s hottest on record’, but a barrage of unseasonal heavy snow has landed on parts of the Austrian Alps, as severe flooding from Storm Boris is causing havoc in various central and eastern European states.
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It often snows at altitude in September, but the levels seen over the past few days in places have been described as ‘unprecedented’ by weather experts, says PlanetSKI.
Snow is falling to as low as 700m in Austria with as much as 2m expected to fall at altitude by the end of Monday.
Austrian storm warning centre UWZ says that in some areas, previous records for the entire month of September will be “surpassed in just a few days”.
Manuel Kelemen, a forecaster for Puls24 TV, said “what we’re experiencing is extraordinary, if not unprecedented”.
“Although occasional (mostly) high-altitude snowfalls are nothing unusual in September, this degree of storm is not something we have seen this early for many years and it will probably end up dumping record snowfalls (for the time of year) across some parts of Austria,” said Fraser Wilkin from weathertoski.co.uk.
“Many other Alpine regions have also seen significant snow at altitude, but it is mostly in Austria where the early winter onslaught appears unusually severe.”
It is being described as a 1 in 50 year event by the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic where there has been heavy flooding.
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The current weather in the Alps has been caused by cold polar air from the north interacting with a very warm Mediterranean sea to the south.
It has been so severe for two reasons:
— The position of the storm has pulled in colder air from the north to mix with moisture drawn up from the unusually warm waters of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
— The low pressure has been slow moving and has been stuck in a blocked weather pattern, meaning the storm is trapped between high pressure to the west and the east.
The weather has caused huge disruption and some loss of life.
Full article here.
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Image: Alpine snow scene [credit: planetski.eu]
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September 15, 2024 at 08:20AM
Back in 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom offered a bill giving the state’s iconic Western Joshua Trees “protected” status.
The Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act was prompted by the California Fish and Game Commission’s inability to act on a petition filed more than three years ago seeking to list the living symbols of the California desert as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act.
“Compromise is always painful,” said Brendan Cummings, conservation director of the Center for Biological Diversity and an author of the petition. “But at the end of the day, I’ll be happy if this bill passes.”
The Newsom Administration’s intervention reflects a volatile reality: Opponents of the petition warn that listing the western Joshua tree could derail private property improvements and renewable energy projects designed to help meet California’s climate change goals of shifting the state’s electricity system entirely off fossil fuels by 2045.
However, in 2020, Avantus (the developer behind the project) received an exemption from Newsom’s Fish and Game Commission to clear the trees. Arguably, the 2023 measure is a cover for the realities that are now being played out in the state.
As I noted in an earlier post, climate cultists insisted that they needed to chop down the Joshua Trees to save them from the carbon dioxide plants actually need for life. In the senseless quest for renewable energy utopia, a solar energy firm was given permits to proceed with the Aratina Solar Center, over the deep concerns and objections of area residents.
Despite comments and concerns from residence in Boron and Desert Lake, the Kern County Board of Supervisors approved a solar farm project which will include five different sites in the East Kern County area; the board voted on the approval at their October 12th meeting in Bakersfield.
It appears a massive green energy project cannot begin without a substantial outcry from the nearby residents, whose communities are being deeply impacted with few real gains in sustainable or reliable energy.
This week, work began on felling 3,500 of the 4,700 Joshua Trees that are on the site of the solar farm.
A 2020 survey counted 4,700 trees on the project site. Since then, however, the size of the project has been reduced.
Hundreds of Joshua trees appeared to have been destroyed in the last week, but on some portions of the site the trees still stand, residents said. Neither the company nor government agencies would say how many trees have been cut down. Avantus, the developer, said fewer trees will be destroyed than the government approved.
Heavy equipment has not yet started leveling the land where the trees were felled to prepare for the solar panel installation.
Residents fear the earth-moving work will increase the threat of valley fever — a fungal respiratory infection that is transmitted in dust. A local group found the fungus that causes valley fever in samples of topsoil from the five parcels surrounding the towns where the solar panels will be built.
Residents are continuing to fight, launching a petition to halt further destruction of the Joshua trees.
A petition against the project was launched earlier this summer and currently has over 52,000 signatures.
“Ancient Joshua Trees are going extinct, and we must save them. The Aratina Solar Project in Boron, California, is approved to destroy nearly 4,000 ancient Joshua Trees in this forest…These iconic trees have stood for centuries, providing habitat for numerous species and contributing to the unique biodiversity of our region,” the petition read.
If California politicos were seriously interested in reliable and affordable energy and protecting Joshua trees, they would be making plans to erect Generation IV nuclear reactors.
Instead, we are going to spend decades recovering from the environmental damage caused by climate cult pseudoscience.
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September 15, 2024 at 08:05AM
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